I worked in a building designed to be heated by that generated from the mainframe in the basement.

…then computers got smaller ;-)

So it’s like a really simple motion capture because it sees the QR codes and knows where your left arm is sticking?

Could it be that basic and effective?

Arguement

\sigh

I don’t have an apple TV. Or an iPhone.

I have Apple TV for a while, during the ForAllMankind days and especially Ted Lasso. Some of their TV is great.

But killing my subscription took me three tries. Holy hopping shit, Hannah, was it a bag-drive just to find the page and make it happen. Their entire website is one big incestuous circle asking you why you don’t have an iProduct and why not buy one here.

I’m 30 years in Linux, I should mention, and I worked at a distro building and securing Linux and AT&T Unix, and I’m somewhat nerdy. Still. It was such a mortal trial.

Never going back.

Remember when the US successfully sued and dismantled companies using their market presence to unfair advantage?

I know people at a freightline company. They have retirement parties for 25-year workers about 2-3 times a year that I hear about.

There are good trucking outfits out there. you Canadian?

D’ya wanna be?

henway

Wait. What’s a henway? #bout5lbs

chef’s kiss

So long as there is funding for the arts, Ross is replenished endlessly.

Holy shit. What a direct and quantivative comparison to the power of memories to keep the spirit of our loved ones alive through giving (in my family’s case, stories; did I enter tell you of the time when my uncle met Loretta Swit?) of ourselves and sharing them with others.

Huh. I’m no judge of art, being a low-born oaf, but in retrospect that is clearly art; and evocative as fuck.

The ability to point out my own mistakes has maybe done the best for my career, long-term.

…which no one uses in great quantity but it serves as a reason to divert attention to some idea of bloat and not to an editor without a fucking beep mode.

Instead of using old proprietary shit you could use Linux or *BSD with a vintage desktop environment and have a blast

I’m not sure you get it.

The CnC operator, for instance, didn’t choose windows; they chose the CnC machine because it’s best at making wood into shapes they need. It came with ‘a computer’ to control it. That computer had a desktop and an icon.

You see how CHOOSING THE OS wasn’t on the list? They chose - and fucking get this - A CNC MACHINE out of a printed catalogue with a 30-word write-up. The number of CnC machines with a Unix or Linux or BSD or BeOS install on them in 2000 was - drumroll please - zero.

If you want to fix that, you’re going to need a time machine. Remember to bring your flag with you.

Go learn about ReactOS, too.

loose

You sure?

Tell me you understand the health risks with unnecessary touchscreen use.

the deficit being cited as a key reason

You think the current efforts and changes will get that credit rating fixed?

Can we, as users, prevent our own posts and comments from federating to a given server?

They’re not banning me for my accusations of genocide; I’m Banning Them

Thin skin as performance art.

I’d say the ability to write. My Prof would lose her mind if she saw Lemmy.

Canada. Union. IT. Mixed Gov/corp contract.

100% WFH (anywhere, but within the country if you’re on the gov stuff)

22 holiday-days a year. But given the 9x9 fortnight means an extra day off within the paycheque, timed around stats it means 7 weeks.

Generous supplemental medical and dental and vision plan, workday ends precisely at 4:39 and no one expects you to stay a millisecond after; but we stay to either finish or mothball a task so it’s an easier pickup. Evenings and holidays are fucking sacred and you won’t get contacted unless it’s a break-glass all-hands event.

The job is too much fucking Ansible and not enough real work, but I joined because I know the staff and it’s a really great and cohesive team. New openings only when someone retires, and with luck I could end up sailing the world on half pay for life like the guy whose seat I took over.

It can’t have worse uptime.

I’m not here to influence things. I was in the thick of it for a bit, but I’m here now.

I love coding. I get to do it for money. It allows me a nice little apartment in a nice environment and with my wife chipping in her half we’re a little insulated from financial strife. A little.

That’s it. I code, I eat food and live with a beautiful girl who seems to care for me, and we occasionally get to go see family or a strange new place. I’m flying as close to the sun as I dare.

Find peace in your existence and enjoy what you’re doing, whether programming is the bread or it’s the butter. It’s all a means to an end of doing something you love for what little time we have here.